Myrtle Whitney Papers 1890-1892

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Myrtle Whitney Papers 1890-1892

The Myrtle Whitney Papers consist of the correspondence and personal papers of Northwestern University student Myrtle Viola Whitney. The collection depicts the life of a female Northwestern student in the 1890s.

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Whitney, Myrtle Viola

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Myrtle Viola Whitney was born in Oakfield, Wisconsin, on December 12th, 1869. After graduating from high school she attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where her family lived, and in 1890 transferred to Northwestern University's College of Liberal Arts. While a student at Northwestern, Whitney became an active member in the Gamma Phi Beta sorority. She graduated with a B.A. degree from Northwestern in 1891. Whitney pursued a career as a Latin instructor, finding teaching job...

Northwestern university

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During World War II, Northwestern offered its facilities for use by the War Department. The Army, Navy, and Civil Aeronautics Administration operated eleven training programs at Northwestern in addition to the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (N.R.O.T.C.) established in 1926: the Navy V-7, Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School; the Navy V-5, Naval Aviation Prepatory Program; the Navy V-1, Accredited College Program; the Naval Training School (Radio); the Army Signal Corps Officers Training Scho...